Updates, news, and musings from the City of Dallas Bicycle Program

My Xootr Swift folding bike in the cool bike rack in front of the Cold Beer Company
Deep Ellum, Dallas, Texas
Proposal To Turn Abandoned London Tube Lines Into Cycle Paths
Ummm… could anything be cooler that this?
Downtown Dallas Community Roundtable Aims to Meet Demand for Walkable Urban Neighborhoods in Dallas
Work in the City? Use a Commuter Folding Bike!

My Xootr Swift folding bike on the bike route over Interstate 10 in New Orleans. Downtown and the Superdome are in the background.
Chuck Marohn cofounded the non-profit Strong Towns in 2009. Since then he has steadily built an audience for his message about the financial folly of car-centric planning and growth. The suburban development pattern that has prevailed since the end of World War II has resulted in what Marohn calls “the growth Ponzi scheme” — a system that isn’t viable in the long run because it cannot bring in enough revenue to cover its costs.

Dallas is the most affordable destination for 2015
This is the downtown architecture tour that the author wasn’t able to go on. Shame.
Raymond Carver, The Art of Fiction No. 76
I have completely fallen in love with Raymond Carver’s short stories. If I could write like anyone, I’d write like him. This is a very interesting interview – for writers, fans, and anybody else with funcioning brain cells.
Beginner’s Guide to Porters & Stouts
Be Suspicious of the New Harper Lee Novel
Suspicious? Maybe. But I’m still going to read it. I mean… a long lost “sequel” to To Kill A Mockingbird… written before TKAM… How is anybody not going to read that?
Why Harper Lee remained silent for so many years.

A terrible Blackberry photo of my folding Xootr Swift parked next to a Yuba cargo bike (set up to carry a whole family) outside the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema. Two different philosophies on urban bicycling.
8 Bicycle Movies on Netflix Right Now
